Title: Violin Alone

Universe: ACD Canon

Words: 50

Summary: Depending on the reason, being alone can be the most terrible thing in the world.

Warning: character death

Watson had never especially liked "Chaconne" – too melancholy, perhaps – and once Holmes deduced that fact, he had refrained from playing it except very occasionally.

After the funeral, Holmes took up his instrument and played it fiercely, angrily, as though trying to punish his friend beyond the grave for dying first.